or Artiste (Utopia)? Utopia was Rundgren`s worst idea, and ``2nd Wind`` sounds like one of the group`s more overwrought albums (Utopia keyboardist Roger Powell is present here).

Rundgren`s self-help lyrics are loaded with well-intentioned cliches. In one song alone (``Who`s Sorry Now?``), Rundgren informs us that ``we are all in this together``; ``some are winners, some are losers/here in our little world`` and ``there`s no method in the madness.`` Which wouldn`t matter a bit if ``2nd Wind`` rocked like the dickens. But these songs stagger beneath the weight of overblown arrangements, fake strings, real horns, mock-operatic voices and sheer wordiness.